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"green" dies at the Herald, along with Sir Howard
Sad day in New Zealand. Sir Howard Morrison dies after a trip to Rarotonga. And the NZ Herald hopes the new Auckland super council will stop thinking ‘green’ – their distancing quotes.
24.09.09 in urban-planning
World Green Building Day
Hey, happy inaugural World Green Building Day! What can you do to mark this event in Melbourne… um, you could take the opportunity to network with GBCs . Other than that, not sure. Maybe knock off early and have a Green Beer.
24.09.09 in sustainability
Keating's big vision
c.2006 BY HILL THALIS + URBAN + BERKEMEIER + IRWIN
20.09.09 in urban-planning
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Bjarke Ingels speeds
As Bjarke Ingels demonstrates in this recent video , he can speak English faster than most native speakers. Here he motors through his new behind-the-scenes comic book, the Shanghai pavilion, that Mountain, and some new mountains in Azerbaijan.
20.09.09 in architects video-clips
Ballarat best and worst
Hot on the heels of an Albury newspaper’s Best and Worst Buildings comes Ballarat’s. A slightly more democratic method of determining the lists was used – polls rather than one journo’s whims.
20.09.09 in buildings
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Vernon Brown house to fall
33 Kitchener Road, one of my faves from a childhood spent ambling back and forward along the Takapuna foreshore, by Group Architects member Vernon Brown, is to be demolished. This follows 20 years after a similar house by Ivan Juriss nearby was shipped out to the countryside, no longer appropriate for the skyrocketing property values on the foreshore.
19.09.09 in heritage
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Strange?
Following on from several other newspapers’ reviews of local architecture, Adelaide Now profiles a few ‘strange’ and ‘bizarre’ built in South Australia. The freak show includes this number from levitating architect and builder Shane Hendricks.
19.09.09 in architects
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Domain Rd Metro
Grimshaw’s concept design for the railway at Melbourne’s Domain Road interchange can be viewed at Architecture and Design. Apparently the train in the images is a high speed Seimens – may not be able to get a good head of steam up on that line.
14.09.09 in buildings
Queens Wharf
233 entries were received for the “ideas” component of this Auckland competition for a cruise terminal and event space on an important waterfront site. They can be viewed online in a pixellated sort of way (even if you download the “high res” PDF.
13.09.09 in competitions
The New Marysville
Victoria’s Premier Brumby has just released the draft Urban Design Framework for Marysville, which was pretty much wiped out after the February fires. You can give feedback until October 10th.
10.09.09 in urban-design
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Old Colours
The names of paint colours used to be so much more.. honest. In this 1917 paint advertisement I like the name for the dull brown colour (so common about town, even now).
08.09.09 in paint weird-wonderful
Maddison Grandness
Peter Maddison, of Maddison Architects , is host of the Australian Grand Designs.
TV TONIGHT
08.09.09 in architects
Ben Elton wired to the sun
Comic Strip comedian and author, Ben Elton, gets to keep the photovoltaic panels he put on his heritage registered North Fremantle home after a stoush with the council. But he does have to remove them within 25 years, if Freemantle is still above water then. He will move into the house with his “Perth wife” in December, and will probably have enough material for a new novel with this.
06.09.09 in sustainability
Freeways not timesavers
A study released today compares 1990s predictions of massive timesavings if new freeways were built in Melbourne, with current data taking into account all the new freeways. The report concludes that car travel times in Melbourne are slower than ever. New roads mean new traffic.
04.09.09 in urban-planning
Boxes
As pointed out by Sean in a recent comment , the following BVN designs are somewhat alike. Big white box phase?
04.09.09 in buildings
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Wardle + DA get Melb Uni
In case there is anyone (like me) out there who managed to miss the big news of the week…
ADR
02.09.09 in buildings
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Earthships don't fit the plan
Garbage warrior Michael Reynolds is in town and spoke to The Age . “What the planet needs right now is a billion Earthships . But right now, conventional junk housing is the easiest thing to get a permit for, while the right thing to do – green, sustainable, zero-carbon-emission housing – causes someone to have to fight for years to get permission.”
01.09.09 in sustainability video-clips